The best horror games for Halloween 2026
Horror games to play around Halloween, picked from the 1,998 horror games on PC in our catalog: the best ones to play with friends, this year's new releases, free games and demos. Every game links to its requirements, price and Steam Deck status.
Steam Scream V, the Steam Halloween sale, runs until Nov 2, 2026: 1,998 horror games are on sale right now.
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Daemonologie
Folk horror investigation inspired by Scotland's seventeenth-century witch trials
93% positive
601 reviews
Demo Interior Worlds
First-person exploration focused on photographing anomalies in deserted everyday places
96% positive
598 reviews
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Handy Harry's Haunted House Services
Retro co-op horror about repairing buildings while avoiding ghosts
91% positive
596 reviews
A-Tech Cybernetic VR
VR sci-fi shooter with motion-controlled weapons and mutant hordes
65% positive
595 reviews
Demo Ten Bells
First-person anomaly horror in an English pub that keeps changing
97% positive
595 reviews
Demo The Alien Cube
First-person horror adventure investigating a missing uncle's occult past
81% positive
593 reviews
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School 666
First-person horror about spotting anomalies and escaping an endless school
81% positive
593 reviews
Demo The Charnel House Trilogy
Point-and-click psychological horror about a mysterious nighttime train journey
80% positive
592 reviews
Love, Sam
Psychological horror told through diary pages in a changing room
94% positive
588 reviews
Cave Crawler
First-person horror about piloting a search drone through caves
85% positive
587 reviews
Arkham Horror: Mother's Embrace
A Lovecraftian investigation RPG mixing clue hunting with turn-based combat
63% positive
586 reviews
Demo Painkiller: Resurrection
Old-school first-person shooter built around an arsenal of unusual weapons
25% positive
585 reviews
Horror Squad
Co-op survival horror about exploring cursed locations and performing rituals
55% positive
583 reviews
Perception
First-person horror adventure where sound reveals rooms and attracts danger
72% positive
580 reviews
Capitalism 2
Business simulation about building a company across multiple industries
83% positive
580 reviews
This Strange Realm Of Mine
A first-person shooter mixing monster fights with poetry and philosophy
83% positive
578 reviews
Eternal Evil
First-person survival horror with ghouls that become more dangerous
73% positive
578 reviews
Demo Dyping Escape
Typing horror where your own keystrokes become threats against you
92% positive
576 reviews
Demo Vultures - Scavengers of Death
Turn-based survival horror with scavenging and tactical extraction missions
80% positive
575 reviews
Dread Fields
First-person horror mixing everyday farm chores with a rural mystery
98% positive
575 reviews
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Z.O.N.A: Origin
A VR survival shooter with dangerous anomalies and customizable weapons
81% positive
573 reviews
Wick
First-person survival horror built around candlelight and evading forest ghosts
87% positive
572 reviews
Tsugunohi
Side-scrolling Japanese horror where walking left brings increasingly strange encounters
74% positive
570 reviews
Heaven Does Not Respond
Psychological horror investigation through a corrupted computer and playable memories
90% positive
568 reviews